From May 2nd Business in Wind started preparations at site for the dismantling of Kubbeweg wind farm near Biddinghuizen, province of Flevoland. The wind farm is a private initiative of farmers and...
Ascension Island
Six wind turbines have been dismantled and prepared for recycling on Ascension Island. This is an Island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean as you probably have read in an earlier post of Business...
Benevento, Italy
The pictures show the installation of Vestas V90 3MW wind turbines, which we decommissioned last year at Oosterscheldekering, Neeltje Jans and transported to Italy. These wind turbines are being...
Wales
In beautiful sunny Wales we dismantled last week an old Lagerwey LW50/750 wind turbine. After 15 years operation in the Netherlands this one wind turbine was installed here in 2016. This turbine had...
Refurbishment
In these weeks 4 x V80 2MW are being refurbished to extend the lifetime with another 20 years. In this case refurbishment means; one gearbox will be replaced, controls renewed, several items...
Flying tools, Ascension Island
Dismantling of wind turbines always requires a serious and thorough preperation. For the six on an Island that is in the middle of the Atlantic ocean is a serious challenge not to miss anything as...
Alaska Wind Farm, Dorset
After carefully dismantling four Vestas V80 wind turbines in Lommel Belgium, the towers are transported to the UK and stored at the project location: Alaska Wind Farm in Dorset UK. Later this year...
Ascension Island
A Boeing C-17 from the US Air Force dropped Wim Robbertsen last week on Ascension Island to prepare the dismantling of six non-operational NEG Micon turbines on behalf of the US Government....
New year, new projects
2022 started with dismantling 4 Vestas V80 turbines from the Vuursteentocht wind farm in the Flevopolder, NL. The weather conditions were good today. These excellent turbines will certainly get a...
Wales
While the sheep graze in their place around the turbines, the turbines themselves are entering their last months of operation in Wales. Next year we will dismantle 3 Vestas V52 and 1 Vestas V44 at...
Lommel, Belgium
This week we had perfect weather conditions to start dismantling 8 Vestas V80 turbines at Windpark Lommel. Follow us in the coming months to see how used wind turbines are boosting the circular...
RTL Op de zaak
Sunday 31th of October (12.00 – 12.30) we will show up in the Dutch television program ‘Op de Zaak’. Earlier this year, RTL followed us during the dismantling of two wind turbines on working island...
Route survey in Scotland
Performing a route survey through beautiful Scotland in preparation for the installation of used wind turbines next year.
From Belgium to the UK
Preparations for dismantling 8 Vestas V80 turbines at Kristalpark in Lommel have been started. 4 of these turbines will be re-installed in a sand and gravel quarry in Dorset, United Kingdom. The...
Windpowernl Magazine
Windpowernl recently released a new edition of their magazine. We had the opportunity to tell more about the decommissioning of used wind turbines, challenging projects, and our focus on giving used...
Restoring the site
Restoring the site usually means removing the foundation, windfarm cabling and substation. This time it was a unique location where we also removed the steel sheet piles and extended the quay slope...
As soon as possible
“Are you able to take down the turbine as soon as possible?” No problem, within one week preparations started and one week later the Vestas V66 1.75MW turbine was dismantled and transported. Also...
Inching and pinching
Along the Bloesemlaan you will find several Vestas V52 wind turbines on one-piece towers of 36 meters high. These towers were specially designed for this area where the tip height was limited due to...
Foundation removal
Part of our work is the extraction of the foundation insert and the removal of the concrete foundation. With the help of Weever Sloopwerken, we have already removed more than 30 foundations this...
Italy – Vestas V90 3.0MW (2x)
Earlier this year we already took down 3 Vestas V90 turbines at Neeltje Jans. Totally 5 turbines are sold to a developer in Italy who will re-install the turbines in Benevento. The last two turbines...